关键词:
URBAN planning
SOCIAL policy
URBAN policy
URBAN sociology
ECONOMIC reform
SOCIAL marginality
摘要:
Urban planning in Greece hardly constitutes part of a broader social and economic policy, while the absence of a well-organized welfare state is partly compensated for by strong family support networks, 'soft-budgeting', the large size of the informal sector and state intervention in the market by extra-economic means. This is why urban inequalities and social exclusion in Greek cities have until recently been overlooked by policy-makers, as also by researchers. Yet, since the late 1980s, policy has had to confront a number of serious negative trends, while pressures from the European Union towards reforms have a potential to change the situation dramatically. This paper analyses forms of urban inequality and social exclusion in postwar Greece by referring to the existing literature and EC projects;examines the response of planning to these problems and accounts for its weakness;and, finally, locates recent trends and the main issues which reforms in social policy and urban planning have to deal with in the immediate future, so that they can tackle new forms of social exclusion and poverty, in view of the weakening role of the state in income redistribution processes and the strengthening of the market.